rare photographs of extinct animals
I love this kind of thing. The question of extinction, particularly human-caused extinction, and the extent to which we should stride to prevent it, is very interesting to me. How much do we miss the Tasmanian Tiger?
via reddit
via dangerous minds
I enjoyed this video, which I wouldn’t say is NSFW but probably will get you some pretty weird looks from anyone watching over your shoulder.
This video is by the same director…. I remember seeing it on boing boing (I think) a while back. Aaaaand this one is probably NSFW.
“Morgana1333
21 hours ago
Monos borrachos!!! xD jajajajaja”
I saw this dude just strutting down the street by the reservoir. A dog on my side of the street started barking at him, but the dude payed no mind. He was basically unflappable.
Monkeys get a groove on, but only to monkey music
This article is pretty interesting for a couple reasons- it examines the reactions of different species to music. Ultimately, the scientists involved seem to have determined that human music doesn’t have the sonic cues to be meaningful to monkeys (in this case, Cotton Top Tamarins). You can listen to some of the music that the scientists made for the monkeys, which is pretty awesome. But also awesome is this detail:
“Monkeys interpret rising and falling tones differently than humans. Oddly, their only response to several samples of human music was a calming response to the heavy-metal band Metallica.”
Fuck yeah! Metallica, good for torturing terrorists and calming monkeys.
“meet the coywolf”
…but is “coywolf” really the best name we can come up with for this? I’d like coyolf better, or woyote. “Eastern coyotes”, mentioned in the article, isn’t a bad name. But what about, say, “ultra coyotes”, or “mini wolves”?
I hope he wasn’t as cool as this one. He seemed kinda dumb actually, you know, running around underneath my car and such.
Fortunately the internet is full of things like this to soothe my troubled soul.
"contamination hazard urban disposal" 
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